Trying to make up for the lack of females remaining on the show, Idol kicked off the night with a bloody awful rendition of Pink's "So What?". Not only were we forced to listen to the five booted women harmonize horribly, but I believe my ears bled having to listen to Paul McDonald try to keep up with the women. After witnessing this massacre (possibly on par with the Charles Manson murders), America is definitely content with the decision to kick off the majority of these folks...although not according to Steven Tyler who spewed more useless crap with words of "you made America think twice". Think twice about voting them off?! Not quite, perhaps think twice about watching this terrible show!
Taking on America's favorite home-wrecker Lee Ann Rines, Scotty McCreery sang "Swingin'". Underwhelming and boring throughout, McCreery finally showed that he was human and not king of song selection. Perhaps most annoying was the skit prior to his performance where his contestants teased him about the way he holds his microphone; having not paid close attention in the past, I am now totally annoyed when watching McCreery perform.
James Durbin continued to show that he is the one to beat when he performed Mule's "Uprising". While the judges raved so much about this performance that I thought J Lo might spread her legs for him right there and Randy might hold him like McCreery holds a microphone, I simply thought it was a mediocre performance. Always preferring folks like Durbin and Lambert to use their screams in moderation, I wasn't a fan of the screams near the end of the song. Coolest gimmick? The drummers.
Amazingly, for the first time, I enjoyed Haley Reinhart's performance when she sang Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". While pitchy at times, Reinhart chose a great song for her throaty voice. Once again, however, I became irritated when Reinhart's fellow contestant commented on her idiosyncrasies, including how she growls during songs.
Jacob Lusk took on the mighty Luther and the very beautifully written "Dance With My Father". Sounding much like Kermit the Frog for the second or third time this season, tonight's performance didn't do much for me. Lusk did an outstanding job at hitting the high note near the end and even better job at not being the Diva that his fellow contestants described prior to his performance, but unfortunately not a bang up job when it came to the overall performance
I am afraid to insult Casey Abram's performance of "Harder to Breathe" as I am downright scared of the guy when he puts his angry face on during performance. I haven't seen such an odd face during a performance like this since John Mayer started out and couldn't avoid his "O" face while singing. Perhaps I heard something different than the judges, but it seemed like Abrams was off just a bit a number of times during the song.
Abrams does score points for getting Seacrest to acknowledge there was a joke in Seacrest wearing a beard (hey Troy Aikman recently shed his when he got divorced so perhaps there is a new couple in the future). Seacrest followed with the gem, "this is what it feels like to be a man". Yes, Ryan, those over 5' tall and 18 years of age are considered men...don't worry, a few more inches and you'll be there. But we weren't done there when Seacrest stated "I can't get it off". .I wasn't sure if he was talking about the glue from the beard or perhaps the glue from someone else pre-show.
Stefano Langone hopefully earned the least number of votes with a terribly cheesy and poor rendition of Ne-Yo's "Closer". What was once a cool and sexy song was turned in a performance that was closer to what one would see at some small-town karaoke bar than what is expected from someone in the top seven. Shocking (he said sarcastically) that the judges liked the performance.
Lauren Alaina batted clean up with Sara Evans' "Born to Fly" and had me agreeing with douchebag producer, Jimmy Iovine's comment that Alaina tends to hold back during her performances. At points in the performance, I saw the Alaina that had the potential to win this thing, but unfortunately she seemed stiff through much of the performance and just didn't bring it.
Voting has been unpredictable so it is hard to say who is going to go home tomorrow night, but I would put Langone, Abrams, and Alaina in the bottom with Langone going home.
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